RentSmart

The Boston Archive

Dataset

RentSmart

RentSmart Boston compiles data from BOS:311 and the City's Inspectional Services Division to give prospective tenants a more complete picture of the homes and apartments they are considering renting, assisting them in understanding any previous issues with the property, including: housing…

Dataset

Publisher: DoIT Data & Analytics
Spatial coverage: all
Fields: 13
Keywords: 311, housing, inspectional services, property, rent, renters, rentsmart, tenants, violations
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/rentsmart

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

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CSV	preserved	919503	`a96b8285b072f7ce2de68131cadb7d792c31f275524f6993a8e51f04cd6a266b`	source
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Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

Column	Type	Description
`date`	text
`violation_type`	text
`description`	text
`address`	text
`neighborhood`	text
`zip_code`	text
`parcel`	text
`owner`	text
`year_built`	text
`year_remodeled`	text
`property_type`	text
`latitude`	text
`longitude`	text

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/ba4a8d8dac284f9a0a79e1342063c3a0/rentsmart-columns.json — 1109 bytes, SHA-256 ba4a8d8dac284f9a…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Who publishes RentSmart, and under what license?

DoIT Data & Analytics publishes it. The archive accessioned it under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain), and holds the publisher's own column dictionary verbatim rather than reworded into the archive's vocabulary — how a publisher names a column is evidence about the publisher.